CIC Kenya Money Market Fund in 2024
After the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) raised its lending rates higher than they have been in some time to 13%, if you're an average Kenyan, a borrower, it is a tough time as consumer borrowing rates have skyrocketed, the capacity to repay existing debt has seen a stretch, and it's harder to get approved for new loans. But...
Why Telkom Network Keeps Disappearing in Kenya
If you are a Telkom user in Kenya, you are tough, enduring, resilient, brave, and patient. All those characteristics of warriors, which are mostly heard of or found in comic books, are found in you! It can be really hard. Congrats on being tough on the inside! I mean, how do you keep up with its frequent network outages? As...
JKUAT Bans ChatGPT Amid Fears of AI-Assisted Cheating
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) has announced a ban on ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence-powered writing tool producing speedy texts or 'answers' when prompted, amid fears that students could continue to use it to cheat in examinations and assessments. In a communique to students following the school's Student Examinations Disciplinary Committee meeting held late in February 2024, it...
The National Intelligence Service: What You Need to Know about the ”Secret Police” in Kenya
The National Intelligence Service (NIS) was created in 1999 with the signing and the coming into effect of the National Intelligence Security Act of 1998. Before that, the Directorate of Security Intelligence (DSI) of the Office of the President carried out intelligence gathering and most of the critical roles relating to national security that NIS plays today. NIS is known...
How KCB Mpesa Fixed Savings Account Work
Can you set aside your money for at least a year? Opening a KCB M-Pesa fixed-term savings account might be right for you to save money and take advantage of some of the best interest rates available, which are guaranteed, meaning you'll know how much interest you will earn over the given time your money sleeps there safely. KCB Mpesa...
The New Prices for GOtv Packages From Next Month – 2024
GOtv Kenya has confirmed it is raising the price of some of its subscription plans from next month, April 1, 2024. The MultiChoice-owned pay television terrestrial service provider said the prices of all its six packages would rise except for GOtv Plus with 45+ channels, whose Ksh999/month subscription fee will be maintained. GOtv Lite package would rise from Ksh199 per month...
Can You Hide Last Seen on IG?
If you use Instagram regularly, chances are you have seen the green dot next to a person's profile picture on Instagram Direct Messenger, where you were video chatting and probably exchanging direct messages, or in short, called DMs. If you see this green dot, it lets you know they are active, and when this timestamp is not there, it shows...
How to Join Traffic Police in Kenya
Traffic police officers at the Kenya Police Traffic Department provide oversight in matters relative to the safe use of roads; their functions and duties include ensuring the free flow of traffic on Kenyan roads, prevention of road accidents, investigation of accidents, enforcement of all laws, rules, and regulations with which the department is charged, and initiating road safety sensitization...
Who Owns Kifaru Matchboxes?
Just like Kensalt, Kifaru is another commodity or product - it is actually a matchstick - that could fit the riddle "Who am I, and I am available in all Kenyan households?" Then the answer would be it. Kifaru Matchbox with the sticks inside it. But have you ever wondered who owns the company that makes them? Well, the...
GOtv Smallie in Nigeria: All You Need to Know in 2024
Subscription video-on-demand like Netflix and Showmax have only disrupted the upper-class market of television watchers in Nigeria and not of those in the middle and lower-class band to which many Nigerians belong, whose choice of getting TV is mostly GOtv and their darling subscription plan is GOtv Smallie due to its affordability in programming than most streaming services and...
